They both died at the end of an Orono cul-de-sac of multiple gunshot wounds, one a prominent OB-GYN physician and the other a 2009 law-school graduate.

But what was the connection?

On Sunday night, authorities still wouldn’t say, even after the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office identified Ted C. Hoffstrom, 30, a University of St. Thomas law school graduate from St. Anthony, as the armed man who was killed by police Friday night outside the home of Dr. Stephen Larson, 74.

Just before 9 p.m. Friday, police officers responding to a call about trouble at Larson’s house on Heritage Lane in Orono arrived to find Hoffstrom in the front yard armed with a handgun.

Shots were fired, and Hoffstrom died at the scene.

Officers then went into the house and found Larson’s body.

Larson, who founded a medical group in Edina and Burnsville, was a well-known expert on pelvic surgery and a former adjunct professor in the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

His family had said on Saturday that they were mystified by the shooting.

Two bouquets of flowers were left outside the home on Sunday.

On Hilldale Avenue NE. in St. Anthony, a woman loading a vehicle outside the Hoffstrom home said that no one in the family would have a comment.

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